"So why don't you believe?"
"The world is so awesome. How can you believe it all came from nothing?"
"You're an atheist so you can sin all you want."
(insert some version of Pascal's Wager here-usually a really simplified and stupid version)
Pretty much any openly atheist person living in the Bible Belt has had a conversation turn in one of these directions. I won't go into the ones that go into apologetics, because they're just silly.
So why is it I don't believe?
Because I don't want to.
Try it the next time such a conversation starts. It is truly enlightening how it shuts things down. After all-there's nowhere to go after that.
I have no need to disprove anyone's faith. Without any evidence for it, I can choose whatever I want to believe.
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Ultimately, that's all it ever comes down to. Some try to "prove" that God doesn't exist, but it all comes down to the same type of circular logic as the common "proofs" of God's existence.
And really, how do you debate that? Arguments against "I want"s are fundamentally fruitless.
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